Man arrested over Stepaside Burglaries

A man has been arrested in connection with a spate of burglaries in Stepaside this morning.

Three shops, a butchers, a fruit and veg shop and a chipper, were broken into just after 6am.

Doors and windows were smashed in, while cash was stolen from one of the premises.

The man, in his twenties, is being detained at Dundrum Garda Station.

Gardai are investigating a spate of burglaries in Stepaside.

Michael Fleming owns Fleming's Butchers - which was targeted:

"I arrived down to the village in Stepaside at 6.20 this morning and I discovered that the front pane of the glass in the shop had been smashed through," he said.

"I had a look inside and then I came back out and found that the fruit and veg shop had also been broken into, and then I met the owner of the local chipper, the Borza, and he had also been broken into.

"We went through the CCTV cameras and we can see that there was only one person who did it."

Three Stepaside shops broken into and windows smashed last night . And they wonder why we need a Garda station 24/7 . The reopening cannot come soon enough.